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Allowing Benefits to be Arranged From Prison Could Cut Reoffending
One of the key problems believed to contribute to re-offending is that prisoners are released with just £46, and as they are not able to arrange benefits while within prison, some have little option but to return, if not to crime, to their criminal friends. This is something Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert has raised in […]
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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel
Cllr Mac McGuire (Conservative) has presented his proposal for the make up of the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel. The make-up of Cambridgeshire’s Police and Crime Panel was discussed on Wednesday the 14th of December 2011 by both the Cambridge Community Safety Partnership and Cambridgeshire County Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee. […]
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Appointment to Cambridgeshire’s Policing and Crime Scrutiny Committee
I have been appointed to the Cambridgeshire County Council committee responsible for scrutiny of policing and crime related matters in the county. The chairman of the committee, Cllr Steve Tierney, co-opted me onto the committee apparently as a result of the campaigning, lobbying, reporting and scrutiny which I have been doing on matters the committee […]
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Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Strategy Group
The inaugural meeting of the “Interim Community Safety Countywide Board” is to be held at Cambridgeshire County Council’s Shire Hall on the 24th of November 2011. This new board is intended to be central to the strategic oversight of policing and crime related matters in the county. Its members are made up of representatives from […]
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South Cambridge Police Priorities – November 2011
South Cambridge Policing Priorities On the 7th of November 2011 I attended Cambridge’s South Area Committee where councillors set the police priorities for the next period of time. Anti-Social Behaviour Definition Police Sergent Jim Stevenson presented the report on behalf of the police. Page six of his report listed incident types classed as anti-social behaviour. […]
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North Cambridge Police Priorities – September 2011
North Cambridge Neighbourhood Profile September 2011 I observed the setting of the North Cambridge police priorities on the 22nd of September 2011. The bail hostel at 222 Victoria Road and the traveller site on Fen Road were identified as the root sources of criminality in the area and the police were asked to focus their […]
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Cambridgeshire Police Expansion in use of Restorative Justice
A Cambridgeshire Police Constable in Cambridge On the 25th of August 2011 during the policing section of the West Central Area committee I took the opportunity to draw councillors’ attention to the expansion in the range of offences which Cambridgeshire Police consider can now be dealt with, outside of court, through “restorative justice”. I also […]